City Bond article 1945

Description:
Oakland Post Enquirer artice regarding an Oakland city bond measure that includes $600,000 for the construction of five municipal swimming pools, including the Temescal Pool, 371 45th Street, Temescal district, Oakland, Calif.

Date of Document:
20-May-45

Document Author:
Unknown

Geographic Location:
371 45th Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
In 1945, Oakland voters passed a $600,000 bond measure to fund construction of five new municipal swimming pools in Oakland. All were designated as open-air pools, and each was allocated a budget of $120,000. Possible sites for the pools included De Fremery Park, Oakland High School, Fremont High School, Castlemont High School, and Oakland Technical High School. The nonprofit North Oakland Recreation Center Committee, spearheaded by Temescal attorney, Aldo Guidotti, and other North Oakland business and community leaders, conducted a fundraising campaign in the late 1940s to purchase the former Children s Home facility and adjacent boy s playground on 45th Street in Temescal from the Ladies Home Society of Oakland, and to donate it to the city of Oakland for use as a recreation center and the site of one of the municipal swimming pools. Temescal Pool, located at 371 45th Street, just west of Oakland Technical High School, opened in 1949.